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Having the conditions necessary to support life
What is habitable?
gases in the air
atmosphere
A proposed answer to a question about the natural world.
What is a claim?
the solid part of a rocky planet
What is the geosphere?
The breaking down of rock, soil, or minerals.
What is weathering?
To notice how two or more things are alike or different
What does it mean to compare?
Because they are made of solid rock
Why are they called rocky planets?
The process of moving material from one place to another due to weathering.
What is erosion?
Earth/Venus/Mars/Mercury
What are the 4 rocky planets?
The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim
What is reasoning?
When a set of interacting parts form a complete whole.
What is a system?
A feature that forms on the surface of a planet such as a mountain or sand dune.
Question/Claim/Evidence/Reasoning
What are the 4parts of a scientific argument in order?
physical and chemical
What are the two types of weathering?
Made of water
What is the hydrosphere?
a long narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquids flow.
What is a channel?
A claim supported by evidence
What is a scientific argument?
Information about the natural world that is used to support or go against (refute) a claim.
What is evidence?
How does the geosphere interact with the biosphere?
The biosphere lives on the geosphere.
What geological process could have formed the channel on mars?
Flowing water or flowing lava
Weathering
Erosion
Volcanic Eruptions
Plate Tectonics
What are the 4 types of geological processes?
Earth's crust broken up into plates that slowly move and interact with each other.
What are plate tectonics?
Events or series of events that cause changes in the geosphere.
What are geological processes?
Biosphere/Geosphere/Atmosphere/Hydrosphere
A scientific arguement begins with....
a question